DBB Administrative Announcement

I am heading to Ireland for the next two weeks. But through the magic of the internet I will be posting right up until Saturday. Andrew Dannehy will be writing previews for each of the other teams in the NFC North next week and Reverend Dave may even be weighing in from time to time.

I will return on Monday September 7th with my annual Fifty Prognostications, Pontifications & Ponderings on the 2015 NFL Season and then we’ll dive into the 2015 season.

Aaron Rodgers & I Share Common Ground

“It’s difficult to lose a guy like that in a meaningless game,” Rodgers said, via ESPN.com. “I think a lot of players around the league probably do [dislike preseason games]. At least cut it down, maybe, to a couple.”

Okay, one comment. He’s right. Players don’t want these games. Fans don’t want to pay for these games. But none of this will change until the players go into a labor negotiation with ownership and actually negotiate. You know, ask for stuff and then fight for that stuff.

Bears Substantial Underdogs to Win North

Sun-Times Stoops to Another Low

Everyone knows my affinity for the beat writers covering the Chicago Bears. Adam Jahns is, of course, my favorite but I have tons of respect for Brad Biggs and really enjoy Rich Campbell. But I am constantly amazed by the horrid quality of work coming from the city’s columnists.

How about this: If you’re a Bears fan, is it OK to feel bad for the Packers about Jordy Nelson?

I think I already know the answers.

I don’t encourage you to go and read the rest of the “column” but it reads like DaBearsBlog did when it started in 2005: fueled by alcohol and idiocy. The injury to Jordy Nelson and others across the league has actually raised particular issues worthy of discussion by major newspaper columnists. Morrissey is not a major anything.

Jim McMahon on Dan Patrick Show

Tom Brady got his knee ripped up in the first quarter of the first game of the 2008 regular season. These things can happen whenever, Jordy Nelson will miss 16 games, Tom missed 15.75 that year. What difference does it make if Jordy tears his knee up now versus the 1st quarter against us except that it affects the Pack’s game plan harder if he goes down in the middle of a game. The timing of the injury is actually better for the Packers because they have some time to adjust before the games count. Listen, I would rather have 2 preseason games followed by a 16 game schedule with an extra playoff team added to each conference(18 game regular season is a disaster waiting to happen) but even with the 2 preseason games, there is a chance for a devastating injury.

TheBigCheesy

Glover Quin, is that you?

IRONMIKE

No, Its Matt Suhey.

Irish Sweetness

Dude, if we had a Ditka avatar on here that would be awesome.

AlbertInTucson

“Bears Substantial Underdogs to Win North”

As well they should be.

BerwynBomber

9-7/8-8/7-9 dogfight in NFC North. I called it at the end of last season. All four teams — yes, including the Chicago Bears — will be in it. Bears and Minny will be improved. DET will drop a notch. GB will drop two or three notches. Flip a coin.

AlbertInTucson

For THAT to happen, the Jay Cutler we all, except the trolls, WANT Jay to be will have to be there from the get-go. Also, The Bears will need to pluck a couple of workable parts from the rest of the league’s cut downs.

SC Dave

Like a rt maybe?

AlbertInTucson

In light of Bushrod going out, let’s hope we don’t need an LT, too.

Irish Sweetness

Dogfight in the North fort sure, but we’ll get the Packers in week one. Bank it.

Trac

Two words! Head butt!

I’m sick of the complaining and belly aching over preseason games. Get over it!

BerwynBomber

As DocH and others have pointed out Nelson’s injury was of the non-contact variety and could have easily occurred in practice as a preseason game. Sucks for Cheeseheads and NFL fans but them’s the breaks.

Only immediate change I could see occuring to pre-season is if an innovator like Belichick decides to hold his starters out of virtually all four games, and (the NFL being the copycat league that it is) other HCs soon follow suit. Surprisingly, Goodell and the owners might not bitch a fit as I bet pre-season TV ratings would not drop significantly given that most hardcore fans would still tune into see their 2nd and 3rd team guys play four quarters.

Waffle

Bushrod leaves with back injury.
Time to stop fucking around. Move Long to Tackle and sign Evan Mathis. This is spiraling out of control.

The GP

Bushrod got bull rushed twice in that Colts game. Was not good.

Waffle

if Mills and Leno/Ola are your tackles it would simply be more convenient to shoot Cutler in the shoulder or leg now to just get it over with.

Trac, you’re in . Irish’s Thai time will prevent him from making the draft, unless he tells me otherwise.
Besides, Ender wants a piece of you!

Draft date/time

This Sat, 9pm Central, Aug 29th This should coincide with the tail-end of the Bears 3rd PS game.

Any questions, ask the commish, moi.

That is all, ladies. Back to your regularly scheduled program.

Trac

Lol. I’ll be there.

Bears-4-Ever

Jimmie Mac…Man I miss him, I know no one considers him a Great QB, Hell maybe not even a Good QB perhaps, but I miss that mentality or lack there of on Today’s Bears. I say we need that back, at more than one position. We need some smash-mouth, egotistical, hot-dogs again…

Huge Bear’s Penis

uh-oh… you get to endure the wrath of Irish for not considering Mac great.

SC Dave

He was definitely good. Perhaps not great, but definitely good.

Irish Sweetness

I know no one considers him a Great QB
I do. He was fucking awesome. 25-0 as a starter at one point. Take time out to get your head around that, people.

Johnnywad

Kyle Orton would have won three Super Bowls on that team.

DocNitty Ellipsoids Ornamental

That’s ridiculous. Do you mind me asking how old you are?

Johnnywad

I’m 42. And completely jerking Irish’s chain.

DocNitty Ellipsoids Ornamental

Thank baby Jesus.

DocNitty Ellipsoids Ornamental

I’m with ya Irish. if he wasn’t handcuffed with smashmouth mike he would have been great in others eyes as well. What he lacked in any single area, he more than made up for in moxie, bravado, and a healthy fuck you attitude. It would have been interesting to see how he would have reacted if chicago fans ever turned on him the way they did Rexy and Jay. That would have funny to see. He’d tell all the fans to go piss up a rope.

AlbertInTucson

Per Pat Kerwan & Jim Miller on NFL Radio, as of this moment, end of week two of exhibitions, there are already 64 players on IR.

Kerwan is all for abolishing “Pre-Season” completely.

http://t.co/MsJnMxjrmd POX!!! (AKA, ButchDeadLift)

I wonder how many of those pre-season IRed took place in practice not games.

AlbertInTucson

Good question. Nelson’s blowout could have (would have, eventually) happened on the practice field.

Kelvin Benjamin’s injury was at practice.

http://t.co/MsJnMxjrmd POX!!! (AKA, ButchDeadLift)

The Gmen’s OT, not to mention Kevin White. Delmas got fucked up again too.

All these ACL blowouts have more to do with modern NFL athletes pressing their bodies to the limit, then the PS games.

Someone said it’s akin to dropping a ferrari engine into a honda accord.

Too much power for the frame to handle.

The rest like broken ankles and such, that could happen anytime. Some players slip down the stairs, shoot themselves, or break arms picking up pizzas.

Thems are the breaks, so to speak.

AlbertInTucson

“Bigger. Stronger. More Fragile?

willbest

I read an article at one point that the NFL should consider weight caps at each position. Watching two 230 pound linemen plow into each other would be just as entertaining as watching two 300-pounders plow into each other but the resulting force of the collision would be less and thus so would the damage to the body.

DocNitty Ellipsoids Ornamental

Remind me not to subscribe to your newsletter.

Irish Sweetness

ACLs? Cutty was crankin’ out so much horsepower that he blew a gasket? Payton never had an ACL … he prepared his body properly, trained all of those little muscles folk don’t pay attention to. And he was pushing it to the limit for sure.

SC Dave

And eating pain pills like popcorn. Do you think the digestive/filtration system cancer was just random bad luck? I don’t.

DocNitty Ellipsoids Ornamental

Wow. That’s what I call some armchair diagnosis right there!

DocNitty Ellipsoids Ornamental

And Sweetness played on astro turf if I remember right. Turf is so much more forgiving nowadays.

DocNitty Ellipsoids Ornamental

not to mention fire crackers!

Johnnywad

There are 32 teams carrying about 90 players apiece. So that’s a shade over 2% and we don’t have a count on how many of those injuries are practice versus PS game. Doesn’t seem like much in the big picture. Unless of course, you’re one of the 2%.

Huge Bear’s Penis

the preseason games are only meaningless to the handful of players on the team that will be starting and the fans. For the players outside that group it is a chance to show the rest of the league what they are capable of. There have been many players that have been cut only to catch on with another team or a practice squad. Coaches have stated over and over that there is really no way to fully duplicate game speeds in practice. So the the best way for every team to evaluate these “bubble” players is to have these games.

Right now each team has 90 players on the roster, that is close to 40 players that are not going to make it on the cut, of those 40 there might be a few that make the practice squads.

So when someone states the “Players” do not want the games it should really be “Players that already know they made the team” don’t want the games. For the other 40 players or so currently on the roster, these games could mean fulfilling a dream of making the roster or showing enough that another team picks them up.

Right now we have 6 running backs on the team we will probably carry 4, i am pretty sure a team like the Cowboys are keeping an eye on every running back on every team that will get cut in a week.

The real questions should be “Why would an NFL team subject starters to the risk of injury for a preseason game?” and “Why does the NFL make the fans pay for the games?”{i know the answer to this is because the NFL are greedy assholes.}

Waffle

completely agree. That’s why I find it amusing when people want preseason gone. There would be no way to gauge the future of the team except for practices.
The league getting rid of returners eliminated an entire set of positions from relevancy from the league.
Getting rid of the preseason would be crazy…and bad for player development.

SC Dave

Great post!

http://t.co/MsJnMxjrmd POX!!! (AKA, ButchDeadLift)

864 players or so won’t be on the 53 or the 10man practice squad.

320 players will make the practice squad.

That means approx 1,184 players REALLY want these PS games (not to mention all the bubble guys who actually made the 53).

For many it’s the difference between making $6,300 a wk or working at the local Grocery Store.

So yeah, they’re not meaningless for a lot of ppl

willbest

They get $6,300 a week on the practice squad?

Irish Sweetness

Absolutely this. Starters don’t want ’em. Bubble players need ’em.

DocNitty Ellipsoids Ornamental

I realize now that you said the same thing I said just much earlier. Should have read the comments before I posted.

Huge Bear’s Penis

no worries. its a lot to read sometimes.

EnderWiggin

Blogfather says: “I don’t encourage you to go and read the rest of the “column” but it
reads like DaBearsBlog did when it started in 2005: fueled by alcohol
and idiocy”

2. Hell yes I feel bad for Nelson. As a fan of the NFL, I hate to see guys go down. When it happens in the preseason or in practice, I fucking really hate it. Every year we have this conversation and every preseason I shake my head when it takes down 3-5 big name players every single year (in meaningless games). The only person the games are not meaningless for are bubble plays. Let THEM play. Veterans who aren’t assured a job can play or not, it’s their dice to roll. Jordy Nelson and players of his caliber have no business being on the field in the preseason. It’s asinine! If I were those guys agents, I’d just advise them to refuse to play. Pay the fine later. Your teammates will understand. I guarantee you those spoiled packer fuckers would be okay with it if Jordy and Peppers and Vadgers and Mathews and few random others did not play a second. or just play one play and fake an ankle sprain.

3. I’m not sure if I was around in 2005 or not, but definitely by 2006, and while the blog has made improvements in format and such, the comments section has been steadily declining for years. In those alcohol fueled days, the comment section of THIS blog was something to behold. (No offense to anybody here, now, these comments are more about the old posters that I miss. So here’s to them: Da Coach’s Mustache, Ghost of Halas, MB30SD…who am I forgetting here guys, help me out. One guy in particular. The guy who had all the great stories including the one about Major “Pringles” Wright’s third leg )

Waffle

Crown…..

DocNitty(BallsStillOrnamental)

Yes, Crown. Of course. I miss that guy and MB the most. But who else?

SC Dave

I cant believe you left out #16!!

Trac

That guy took way too many meds.

beninnorcal

I had a theory awhile back that Bill was actually #16 back with a new name.

Trac

Either that or his twin.

DocNitty(BallsStillOrnamental)

I know you’re being funny, and while similarities do exist, Bill is definitely not #16,

Waffle

lol, i have to take credit for that nickname. Please god someone find a way to pull up that old thread. That was back when i was heartless.

DocNitty(BallsStillOrnamental)

I’d like to see that too. I sort of think it may have been me.

I can claim “pringles’ to my credit, after crown said he looked like he had a roll of pringles in his pants or something like that…

Basically anything funny that you think you may have said, I probably said it first. Just sayin’.

Waffle

haha, i’m going to use that line on every single person in my life from now on.

DocNitty(BallsStillOrnamental)

said that…

SC Dave

Those were the days, Yonny.

DocNitty Ellipsoids Ornamental

You have three kids now, right? You’ll be heartless again soon enough.

DocNitty(BallsStillOrnamental)

I almost did, but it wasn’t really him that was funny, it was all that he brought out of all of us.

I’m pretty sure i coined #16 ? Maybe not, i was drinking a lot in those days…. I still creep around here, just don’t post much. The Stache is getting married in 31 days…. D Day is upon us!

Sactowns#1

I’ll give you some advice my grandfather, who was married for 50 years gave me. Don’t do it.

Shady

Phil in SATX, Rancid, Mikebdot, Midway Monster, Nicole, Mike…

DocNitty Ellipsoids Ornamental

Oh shit. I forgot all about that sweet peace of fantasy ass.

Sadly, though. no.

MB30SD

Ho-ly-fucking shit… I hate you

SC Dave

Damn! So THAT’S what it took?

Trac

Let’s not forget Rockatansky. I think he threatened to kick GP’S ass on the L after he got his feelings hurt one time. Hahaha.

The GP

In the Chicago now days there would be more strays from other blogs who wandered in. One time there was this cute chick from wrigleyville who posted with some cute Instagram avatar of her in a short short bears jersey

Crown told her that she could keep posting but only if he could bang her so hard she would have a small bruise on the top of her head from where it hit the head board repeatedly

She stopped posting

So while funny, some context to the good ol days is needed. Johnny Carson was a prick who died alone and didn’t attend his parents or his own son’s funeral. Let’s not go too far with the there were Giants in those halcyon days but it was more fun than Barb for sure

Waffle

haha, agreed.

DocNitty Ellipsoids Ornamental

How you like me now? (see handle)

Waffle

haha, for a second i thought ellipsoids were small oval shaped replacement testicles for men who lost them to cancer…..

DocNitty(BallsStillOrnamental)

Oh yeah. No one said good “clean” fun. Just a helluva a lot of some kind of fun. Crown was….well…Crown.

SC Dave

There is no other description to be sure.

Irish Sweetness

Ah, Crown, yes. I loved those stories.

SC Dave

Ghost was awesome. We’ ve all speculated whether he died… he seemed to be an old timer for sure.

LOL. way to go guys. you mentioned Barb and BillW in the same comment section and caused things to go haywire.

http://t.co/MsJnMxjrmd POX!!! (AKA, ButchDeadLift)

Retro-gnomes

Waffle

you broke the blog by mentioning the name of the beast.

Sactowns#1

I miss when we used to invade other blogs, like Chicago Moms, and just lay waste to the comment section.

Cormonster

Bill – “You owe me an apology! You hurt my feelings. Now I’m going to have to bring this up every day for a month or two about how mean you are, you bully!”

Huge Bear’s Penis

i only remember him as ‘apocalyptic douchebag’.

Huge Bear’s Penis

i only remember him as ‘apocalyptic douchebag’.

Huge Bear’s Penis

i only remember him as ‘apocalyptic douchebag’.

Cormonster

Belinda.

TheBigCheesy

BillW

SC Dave

It was assuredly BillW. So tedious.

SC Dave

That was one sad-sack m.f.

DocNitty Ellipsoids Ornamental

Wasn’t that Bill? Did he finally cease and desist?

willbest

You know what is more meaningless. Losing your starting DE because he celebrates his first sack of the season in game 8 against a backup QB while his team is trailing by 35 points in the 4th quarter.

Doc Hamstring

That was my point in an earlier post. If we lambaste preseason games as “meaningless practice games,” what does it mean when a guy injures himself during a play like that? Or during practice? Or during pre-game warmups?

Do we keep players in hermetically-sealed bubbles until before an important play, then let them play, then immediately immobilize them again after the play is over?

This is a violent game, played by violent men. It often demands more than our bodies are built to withstand.

Ligament injuries especially are difficult to prevent. My high school coach–may he burn in his Evangelical Hell–railed about my team being lazy for not being in the weight room all summer long (when a lot of guys had jobs, because, you know, kids need money), and blamed all manner of injuries on us not being religious about weight training. Broken bones, concussions, sprains… these were all because of “bad conditioning” or “poor weight training.”

Jordy Nelson’s ACL was going to happen at some point. It was a non-contact injury, so we’re talking about a defect that was waiting for the right tension, the right torsion, at the right angle. If he makes it through preseason, only to do it in the first game, does that make it all right? Because it happened in a “meaningful” game?

Bullshit.

Big Mike

The real factor behind pre-season injuries that makes them more painful is the amount of the season that is left (all of it), and the thought that the player didn’t really need to be in at that moment.

beninnorcal

One guy I don’t miss is that one troll who used to come here in ’07, think his name was John. He was a Vikes fan and a douchebag

http://t.co/MsJnMxjrmd POX!!! (AKA, ButchDeadLift)

We always have a resident troll.

beninnorcal

True, looks like today’s is one of tge blog favorites- Cheesy.

SC Dave

To his credit Cheesy is a bit better than most trolls.

He may even qualify as an asshole?

DocNitty Ellipsoids Ornamental

When Cheesy posts, I feel we treat him like Walter treats Donnie, and rightfully so…

Also, regarding the conversation below about DaBears-bloggers from Christmas past: Anyone else think BillW and #16 are the same person? I said it once last year and everyone had a good chuckle but I was only kind of joking. The similarities are similar is what I’m sayin’.

Waffle

hmmm very interesting.

SC Dave

I’m skeptical. #16 would have had to have figured out how to turn off the Caps Lock key, which would likely have taxed his faculties.

Irish Sweetness

Pre-season hasn’t been meaningless for the Panthers(Benjamin), Packers(Nelson), Steelers(Pouncey) etc. And our (joint) second-best rushing yardage total after two weeks is not meaningless either. Nor is seeing what we’ve got from our second and third strings. It’s too long? Make it longer. I want more football not less.

I’m not feeling sorry for Nelson, no. He’s a millionaire who never had to work a day in his life.

BearDown100393

IMO all professional football players work incredibly hard year round to do what they do. They have a very short income window professionally. And when the game is done with them (as very few have the privilege to completely leave on their own terms), most look forward to physical disabilities and post-concussion consequences.

Trac

Any player earning league minimum has earned enough money to start a variety of business ventures if they want to. I can’t find a reason to feel sorry for blowing their opportunity in life. Most people never get one anywhere close to theirs.

BearDown100393

Never once wrote about sympathy. Wrote about work ethic.

Trac

Not saying you did. I just think every person looks for an opportunity, not every person is ready to take advantage of them when they come along.

BearDown100393

Agreed. Transitionally away from pro football “into the real world” is easier for some, and for many others very difficult. Some have little to no excuse to begin a new venture. Others may have very validate medical reasons. IMO football fans tend to dehumanize players during their careers. They get labeled “busts” as draft picks. They get labeled “greedy” during contract disputes. They get mocked (I’m guilty here) if able to play through injuries or not. They get labeled “over the hill” when losing half a step (either through age or injuries where neither variable is really self controllable). They are either “worth” or “not worth” percentage points on the favorite team’s payroll. And they are ultimately judged when it is “time to retire”. IMO we love our team more than we love the participants on the annual roster. They are disposable. And this sentiment is largely manufactured by the NFL itself. A large reason as to why all players must follow strict game day uniform codes. Individuality is never accepted in this league. We rotate from one cast of players onto the next. Players are kings for a short window of time. And afterward, also rans largely forgotten. Antics such as Carter/Sapp demonstrate the NFL has no serious grounded game plan for their players. They are largely left to their own vices. And many cannot handle it, resulting in at times serious legal off the field situations. And than we judge that level of stupidity and ask why. Sometimes it seems all rather predictable and calculated. The NFL eats its own.

Trac

Choices! Bad, good, right, wrong and cause and effect. This is life.

Irish Sweetness

The term ‘Work’ gets stretched around these guys – and they say it themselves. They’re all glad they “don’t have to get a real job and go to work”.

DocNitty Ellipsoids Ornamental

I really like the Mantle analogy and agree that we shouldn’t be sending him money or anything else for that matter. But here’s how I look at it.

I don’t feel sorry for them as much as I feel sorry for us for having to see an inferior product. Imagine the outcome of SB whateverthefuck if Mike Brown and Tommy Harris were both healthy and on the field. Seeing Mike Brown’s career end the way it did was crushing to me. Bo Jackson went from worlds most dominant human to average everyday mortal in one play. Imagine if we had been robbed of years of sweetness due to injury. Imagine what Sayers could have been with today’s knee surgeons, or if he just stayed healthy. Hell, look at your boy Jimmy Mac. He didn’t have half the career you and I think he should have had if had stayed healthy (Charles Martin I hate you). But we got to watch Favre day after day after day. I think anytime a guy goes from great to mediocre at something, due to something out of their control, that’s worth feeling bad for the guy. But more than anything, it’s we who lose out on their greatness.

You and Trac are heartless bastards.

Cormonster

Charles Martin is dead. He died of kidney failure most likely from massive quantities of cocaine. He died at 45 years old. Dumb bastard.

I understand the point. However how many football players ever truly make that type of income? Not referring to the starters or the ones in the show. But for every guy who does run out of the tunnel on game day, how many do not?

A Bronx Tale? Frigging classic. Beginning to end – solid gold.

SC Dave

But that’s nothing compared to the slaves of the NCAA, who come out of school with a worthless degree in “sports administration” (at least back in the day they could come out of college knowing how to weave baskets) – while all top coaches and admins earn enough to pay 40 of them their scholarships. I mean with the checks they send to the IRS every year.

BearDown100393

The real “slaves” are the students attending those colleges, paying full over inflated freight on a tuition in exchange for an equally worthless under graduate degree. Then leaving school in 6 figure debt, no sustainable employment and unable to repay that college loan. The bubble is about to burst. Or perhaps already has.

Huge Bear’s Penis

all while a lot of the “Big” named universities have endowments that are larger than GNPs of small countries.

SC Dave

All a direct result of government intervention.

Would you lend an indifferent 18 year old with a high-school education and no job $100,000? Probably not.

But our government sure would. To millions of them, in fact.

beninnorcal

Also, regarding the conversation below about DaBears-bloggers from Christmas past: Anyone else think BillW and #16 are the same person? I said it once last year and everyone had a good chuckle but I was only kind of joking. The similarities are similar is what I’m sayin’.

beninnorcal

Sorry for the double post

http://t.co/MsJnMxjrmd 4ever85!(AKA, ButchDeadLift)

In honor of throwback TUES, I’m going with my old school avi and handle.

SB, here we come!

DocNitty Ellipsoids Ornamental

That’s nice. That’s the way I remember you. Stay with that.

http://t.co/MsJnMxjrmd 4ever85!(AKA, ButchDeadLift)

I changed the avi once Urlacher began opening his mouth when he retired.
Retired gumbas should be like pretty girls. Shut the hell up and nod the head.

Boom, Scandrick gone. The herd is being thinned for our season of destiny.

http://t.co/MsJnMxjrmd 4ever85!(AKA, ButchDeadLift)

Fuller for L’ael Collins?

Waffle

interesting.

http://t.co/MsJnMxjrmd 4ever85!(AKA, ButchDeadLift)

Fuller was drafted by Marinelli-lite for a cover-2 base. He was mentored by Peanut for a year.

That ought to count for something to Marinelli and gang.

Waffle

our secondary would be even yuckier.

http://t.co/MsJnMxjrmd 4ever85!(AKA, ButchDeadLift)

worse than Leno at LT and Mills at RT?

Waffle

i’d go with Long at RT Montgomery at Guard and Grassu at Center.

SC Dave

“We won because we had great players” – McMahon

Dikta was *such* an ass as a coach.

SC Dave

Best thing is about golfing barefoot.

DocNitty Ellipsoids Ornamental

So I heard on sports radio here in Seattle today that the Seahawks are not ruling out trading Cam Chancellor if he keeps holding out. Um…yes please?!?!

Waffle

kam wants to get revis money.

Irish Sweetness

Let’s give it to him. Can you imagine him in behind our front 7?

Waffle

we’ll need to start a kickstarter campaign. We’re college broke right now.

Sactowns#1

What exactly can we trade? We have $8+ mil in cap space but realistically need to save $3 of that. I believe he would hit us for more than $5 mil against the cap. And looking at our roster what do we have to trade? A decent RB and so so TE? I doubt a trade but I would love to see it.

http://t.co/MsJnMxjrmd 4ever85!(AKA, ButchDeadLift)

draft picks. maybe a 3rd, no higher

DocNitty Ellipsoids Ornamental

I can’t believe I don’t know this but whatever happened to Briggs? Is he in Tampa? Retired?

AlbertInTucson

He landed a gig on NFL Network.

http://t.co/MsJnMxjrmd 4ever85!(AKA, ButchDeadLift)

Didn’t you hear? He said he wanted to punch every Bears QB he ever played with except Orton and Plummer.

Made a point to call out Cutty and Sexy Rexy. Maybe he’s not as dumb as he looks.

BerwynBomber

Griese (not Plummer)

The GP

I was trying to recall when Jake Plummer played for the Bears. I thought I went nuts.

Fuck yes I lock my doors. I’m a hippie from the 60’s and paranoia is always in the air. I live on Vancouver Island and my biggest TV is 46″. I also still have and use a turntable, a cassette deck and a reel-to-reel (along with a cd/dvd player). AND I still don’t own a cell phone. Pretty sure most of this is not typically Canadian.

SC Dave

Damn, nearly a freakin’ Luddite! Sweet.

DocNitty Ellipsoids Ornamental

Yeah baby. Ahhhh shit! Gettin the boys back together!

beninnorcal

Hey, there’s the man. They said you wouldn’t come back, I knew there was still a chance. Welcome back, sir, you were missed ’round here.

http://t.co/MsJnMxjrmd 4ever85!(AKA, ButchDeadLift)

Get back on da blog, biatch! Your BF Bill doesn’t even post anymore! Who else will give us our daily quota of boobs, maing?

Neither of those links have pictures of boobage. You fucked up maings.

Huge Bear’s Penis

i was disappointed in that also.

MB30SD

I need to warm up

Sactowns#1

Blogfather- Make sure you go to Galway and say hi to the ladies for me.

The GP

Great quote by the Nation’s Dave Zirin:

When Cris Carter gave instructions to keep around a patsy, NFL officials apparently knew immediately that his comments were problematic, but left the speech on their website for a year. I have been to these rookie symposiums and cannot remember any session being recorded, because the whole point is for them to be a “safe space” for “real talk.” Either the NFL is staffed by a profoundly incompetent group of people (perhaps) or they knew it would come out someday and wanted a video record of Carter’s comments to immediately disseminate. Why? You really just never know when you’re going to need a fall guy.

And there it is. We know what these players are really taught, but it’s all going to come down on Carter alone.

BerwynBomber

The NFL has given us no reason (recently) to think that they are smart enough to think that far ahead.

Waffle

hey, how hurt is McPhee. A bruised sternum is one thing, a partially torn pec something completely different. A broken heart? A punctured lung? Too much weedsmoke?

He’s of average intelligence masquerading as a philosopher. He’s not a guy I’d like to know socially. Seems like a prick, with a big ego.

I’d get into business with Cutler a 100x before walking across the street to see Bennet flip burgers.

BerwynBomber

One could also read that as a defense of Cutler. Either way, Bennett is a 90 catch Pro Bowler so, for now, you live with it.

Trac

In my book, no endorsement means “no endorsement”. It’s what he didn’t say. Some of these guys just need to shut their pie holes.

BerwynBomber

And the QB shouldn’t be required to be the leader also cuts Cutty a break in the leadership department.

But agree Bennett should have just avoided the conversation altogether. Or at least stopped after the first part.

http://www.upitpuppet.com/ evantonio

but what’s his madden rating?

BearDown100393

Leaders don’t tombstone their teammates in training camp either.

AlbertInTucson

Last week, a drunken teen walks up and kisses a female reporter in the middle of her live shot.

Today, a disgruntled former reporter walks up, shoots and kills 2 former colleagues, a reporter and her photog, wounds their interviewee, while recording it all on his Go Pro camera. He posts the videos on social media while being pursued by police before taking his own like.

Folks, we aren’t “Going To Hell In A Hand Basket” because we are already there.

Trac

Welcome to twatterverse!

This blog is as close as I come to facebook or social media and that’s only because I’m a Bears fan.

CanadaBear

Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers doesn’t look quite as ridiculous these days. Although I’ve gotta admit I always liked the movie even though it was waaaay over the top.

AlbertInTucson

Now they’re reporting the shooter is “Hospitalized with lie-threatening injuries from a gunshot wound.”

Shooter’s video. Here you have the face of cowardice and retribution in America enabled by the gun. He lifts the gun once – brings it back down – then finally does it. Reporter doesn’t go down, she runs – runs because when you get shot you don’t go down immediately unlike movies.

Waffle

i’m not an anti gun guy but I do agree that guns allow people to carry out actions that would normally require much more courage/insanity to pull off. Imagine a gang member having to fight his foe to the quick. Outsiders style.

I’m not anti gun, but obtaining a gun should be relatively difficult. Training should be required, background checks should be a bit tougher etc.

Johnnywad

That ship has sailed Mike. The difference would be negligible. Guns are everywhere. Making them harder to purchase is a nice thought and well placed, but somebody intending to do what this guy did, will give no fucks about acquiring one another way. Won’t change a thing.

http://t.co/MsJnMxjrmd 4ever85!(AKA, ButchDeadLift)

Can’t believe she’s dead, just like that. Pulled out the gun, the people were oblivious.

Sadly, I expect more shit like this. How horrible would it be if that was a girl you’d know?

Maybe we should bring back madam guillotine.

Big Mike

I’m sickened by this.

AlbertInTucson

I did not / will not watch. That’s what the guy wanted. Fuck him. He was pronounced dead @1:30 EDT.

Johnnywad

Al, you never swear. This one obviously has pushed you to the edge. It’s a well placed F bomb.

AlbertInTucson

I try not to use it. It’s too easy. For that guy. Fuck him. Twice.

Johnnywad

Motion seconded and carried.

AlbertInTucson

As it is I don’t care for how much I’ve come to SAY it. All too often, my mouth needs an “undo” .button.

AlbertInTucson

ANY workplace violence is disturbing but this one hits close to home for me.

The GP

I appreciate your essential decency Al. I do. But in this case, I think you are missing a real key insight if you would watch it. It really brings home the cowardly act. He sneaks up behind them, and – and this is really an insight – it’s like he can’t interrupt them. The cameraman, who was the most likely to spot the gun, can’t because he’s shooting video.

The female interviewer and interviewee do not notice the first time he holds up the gun. It’s as if he is invisible. This, partially because he is a minority perhaps, seems to enrage him. He pulls the gun down and his breathing gets faster as he psychs himself up to do it.

Never once does he raise his voice or demand attention prior to shooting. He doesn’t want them to turn and look at them, and thus he shoots the reporter in her side.

As Waffle says, nobody would or could do this with a knife. The gun empowers him in a way that nothing else would. The whole thing is an insight into his cowardice. He posted the video because he wanted to bring on the race war. His own undoing comes from what a shit stain he is about how he does it. So you don’t honor his wish, you see through his facade.

Waffle

The cynic in me can see this becoming all too common and I don’t personally know how it can be stopped. Lonewolf attacks, for whatever reason, cannot be stopped unless the perpetrator of the crime does something so incredibly stupid to be caught beforehand.
I’m just a bank dude but if I could come up with sleeper strategy you know the crazy fucks that actually are in the biz of carrying out attacks can and have thought about the effectiveness of small scale soft target engagement to create extreme fear…..
I just want to watch the Bears win it all, not read and watch a couple of fucking morons like this clown and that white mope in Carolina do their best to pour a can of gas on a lit match.

AlbertInTucson

Have to disagree.

I work in TV. I do remotes.

The ones I work are promotional so there’s more folks involved but normally, for a live shot like the one in question this morning, it’s a 2 person operation. Reporter and his/her Photog, who is also responsible setting up the live signal.

In smaller markets these days it’s even a ONE person “crew”. The reporter (Tabbed a “Multi-Media Journalist”) does it all.

Even before they start the live shot, they’re so absorbed in the setup, pre-production, etc. they probably wouldn’t have noticed the guy hanging around.

I guarantee you, once they are in the “Live”, they are completely oblivious to everything except their jobs at hand. Conducting the interview or framing the shot, etc., all while getting time cues and instructions in their earpieces from the producer back in the control room at the station.

At that point, they are completely vulnerable.

I’m not here to debate guns but this wacko could have savaged them with a knife or a club almost as easily before they even knew what hit them.

Mental Health Care in this country is an afterthought.

As a result, the crazies, even the OBVIOUS ones, go untreated, unwatched, can’t be detained and are allowed to walk the streets wreak havoc among us.

Waffle

Canada, where in THEEEEEEE hell have you been?

CanadaBear

A few months ago you stopped by the blog and at some point you said you were out until PS. I said hold the door on your way out because I was leaving, too. Every time I posted it seemed like it was a pissing match with somebody. It got very old. Anywho, I’m back and looking forward to having some laughs on the blog. I’ve been over on Data’s site dabearsbeat.com. Lots of content and good writing but not many posters.

Johnnywad

Missed you Canada. Wear the tires off the bike this summer?

CanadaBear

Thanks man. Still riding. Happily retired. My knees are arthritic so I’m not walking all that well but can still ride the bike in low gears. Just got a cortisone shot today. Will probably have knee replacement surgery on one of my knees in the spring. The other one isn’t all that great either. Oh well. There are ton of people that have it a lot worse than me. Can’t wait for the season to start.

Waffle

Canada, every time I think of you sitting back and enjoying a sunset on your solid oak porch swing that you crafted by hand because you’re a thrifty Canadian I can’t help but hate you just a little because of the bullshit that I put up with as I travel down my own path to financial independence. You son of a bitch…….give a brother a low rate loan…….

CanadaBear

Would you settle for some low rate love? I’m loving life. I’m one of the organizers of a 3-day Blues Fest this weekend. Should be good times. I’m in charge of security. Other than street people it will be all old farts so I can’t imagine it will be too out of control.

SC Dave

That sounds cool.

Johnnywad

Friend of the family had his left knee replaced this past spring. Six weeks later, he was playing golf. According to him, he should never have waited so long. I guess they’re having a lot of success.
Hate to think of you not walking Canada.

Waffle

i’ll check it out. good to have you back

CanadaBear

Lots of content.

AlbertInTucson

This blog needs you. Welcome back.

CanadaBear

Thanks Al. I didn’t leave in a huff. It was a minute and a huff! Glad to be back.

AlbertInTucson

Well, you get a bonus for coming back. Bring you dog and we’ll give him a bonus, too.

ok boys, here is the gambling strategy this year:
The key here is to never stray from the “code”. Never get greedy and never include more than 2 games in a parlay because at that point you’re buying a lottery ticket. Here are the main scenarios that I will look for on Thursday, Sunday and Monday:
1. Packers at Lambeau vs weak pass defending teams (no bet if Lions playing)
2. The Colts vs any other AFC South Team
3. Stronger offensive teams at home vs the Bills (since they have no fucking quarterback)
4. Seattle at home except everyone except the Chiefs and the Broncos.
5. almost every team at home with a top 20 D and a relatively healthy O vs the Raiders.
6. almost every team at home vs the Jags (injury dependent)

These initial scenarios will provide multiple 2 game parlays. I’ll start with 200.00 and my goal is to turn it into 4000.00 by week 10. After that injuries usually pile up and only a couple of these 6 scenarios will be viable.
Anyone else have any pointers or scenarios that could help grow my secret bankroll? Maybe even betting against SF this year might work. Their D is going to suck balls.

Johnnywad

Always take the over when white safeties are playing.

Waffle

noted

BerwynBomber

Eric Weddle’s pretty decent.

Sactowns#1

I was thinking the Niners wouldn’t win 6 games then I looked and Vegas has the O/U at 7.5. Do they know something I don’t?
I would also take the under when the Jets or Bills are playing at home.

Waffle

ahhh, thanks for reminding me. The Jets are going to suck badly as well. I may add them to the list of parlay options.

Irish Sweetness

Why? That defensive line with those corners …. Fitzy to Marshall, Fitzy to Decker … the Jets will beat teams this year. The New York Sack Exchange might be back.

Cormonster

Always take the home underdog against the road favorite when the road favorite just lost a road game the week before, or something like that. My former accountant used to bet on a lot of football and those were the match-ups he bet the most on. He said the road team would usually win, but not cover the spread. There may have been more to it that I don’t remember, like a 7 point spread or higher. He said it won for him like 80% of the time.

Sactowns#1

Also never get involved in a land war in Asia.

Waffle

lol

Irish Sweetness

Fuckin A on the two-team clause.

Tyrod Taylor looks okay at QB.

A Raiders fan I knew said they tend to beat SD at home, no matter what. E vero? The Raiders with Carr and Cooper, Helu/Murray plus an under-rated D this year might surprise people.

The Cards could provide some nice prices early season. They always had the Defense … now Palmer’s back.

The Eagles could be the surprise package in the NFC this year. They’re currently the #1 running team, and their defense could be scary again this year. We could also be a surprise package in Chicago, and I’d take the outright win odds to beat GB in week one, never mind the spread.

Got a good one to go with the Bears ?

Scharfinator

Any suggestions on where one could follow this advice? Websites, etc.?

http://t.co/MsJnMxjrmd 4ever85!(AKA, ButchDeadLift)

Trac, in case it got buried, follow this link and it should lead you to the promise land. Don’t be like Moses and stay on the outside looking in!

… they should have finished with “and we’re effin’ little cunts on the radio and we’re effing tough”

Waffle

“Alshon Jeffery (calf), Eddie Royal (hip), Kevin White (shin) and Marquess Wilson (hamstring) all sat out practice, giving some unheralded receivers a chance to work with the No. 1 offense.Rashad Lawrence during training camp.
The Bears’ nine healthy receivers are Joshua Bellamy, John Chiles, A.J. Cruz, Jeremy Kelley, Rashad Lawrence, Marc Mariani, Cameron Meredith, Levi Norwood and Ify Umodu”
Cutler actually started laughing when they asked him about the WR situation. What are you going to do, every single starting WR is hurt for the Bears. Every. Single. One.
It’s Miller Time.

SC Dave

Keep Forte healthy!!

MB30SD

I saw on the innerness somewhere today that we’re not the Oakland raiders. Thank GOD!

Johnnywad

Well, well, well.

MB30SD

well…. well…. well………… well.

Johnnywad

Glad you’re back homeslice. Just in time to take down the Pack.

Trac

All is as it should be on da blogasphere. Lovies Bucs are looking tough though my man. Hahaha

Johnnywad

Wait……who lost the Biltong? I forgot.

Trac

Shhhh…

MB30SD

I let him off the hook, he’s got a burst asshole.

Care to wager again Trac. Lovie’s squad is going to SUUUUUCK this year as well, despite media fantasizing to the contrary.

Trac

I don’t gamble MB. You know this. Hahaha

MB30SD

Not well at least.

BAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHA

SC Dave

On the other hand, the Raiders have been to four super bowls, winning three.

MB30SD

And the romans once ruled the world. I missed you dave.

SC Dave

I missed you too, MB. Welcome back, compadre!

Trac

It turns out the Bears caught a break when McDonald got arrested this summer.

Maybe if you weren’t escared of me on ghost I’d spin you some yarns. I know you miss me… killing you.

Shady

So there’s a girl accusing Derrick Rose of some pretty serious shit. It could be complete BS, but if those allegations are true? …Wow…

BerwynBomber

Saw that. Never completely bought into the overly praised “humility” of DRose but also hard to imagine him doing what the woman alleges. Then again, who knows what these guys are like outside the workplace or the media spotlight? Well, except Vic Fangio.

MB30SD

Aaron Kromer?

BerwynBomber

Nah, I was suggesting that only Vic Fangio knows what athletes are like (the misplaced Ray McDonald character reference) not what Vic Fangio is like himself.

MB30SD

Oh. Right. That’s ok, I wasn’t trying to be funny anyway BB. yeah.

Shady

Mmm, yes…

MB30SD

quite

Waffle

Damn, tough off-season for the players ……and their victims??????

MB30SD

not even a hello? I know you missed me you bastard.

Waffle

Lol, I upvoted one of your posts, thought you’d appreciate the brevity

MB30SD

you’re still pissed that I ribbed you about not being in great shape last time. God damn it, I was kidding.

Waffle

Haha, come to chitown and we can discuss over Cruzan and more Cruzan.

MB30SD

There’s a chick there whom I haven’t met yet, but who’s been sending me pics of her vagina for months… Cruzan and vagina is a good mix my brother

Waffle

stop sexting my sister!

MB30SD

I like big vaginas, what can I say?

MB30SD

btw, how’s the brood? You must be a mere shell of the man I once knew.

Waffle

wife can’t stop getting pregnant, at least the kids are cute

MB30SD

jesus, another??!

Waffle

haha, just 3

MB30SD

oh thank god. I was going to fly out just to try and talk some sense into you.

He totally ripped off his older version called “When i was your urologist…man”

MB30SD

LOVED that version.

“Now my balls are cut… but they’re cut by another man”

“…and it hurts me every time I take a piss…”

(tears begin to well)

Waffle

what the fuck are you doing on the Puter? isn’t it the middle of the day out there?

MB30SD

it’s 8:48 at night in cali yo

btw, why haven’t you gotten a PS4 and gotten on Ghost?

Waffle

i’ve lost track of time, i’m in the middle of binging season 8 of Dexter.

MB30SD

oh. get on PS4

http://t.co/MsJnMxjrmd 4ever85!(AKA, ButchDeadLift)

Get a room.

MB30SD

you’re dead to me

http://t.co/MsJnMxjrmd 4ever85!(AKA, ButchDeadLift)

haha, how so? No more dr.Astronaut-hustler model pics?

Bwhahaha

MB30SD

yes. dick.

Waffle

haha, the only thing my PS3 is used for is to stream Downton Abbey for my wife in the basement when she’s sick of me.

Forgot to ask you how the kids are mang?

MB30SD

awesome maings. thanks for asking. Still open invite to come stay wiff me for a night or two. Always welcome.

Waffle

asada mas delicioso and no sharks promise me

AlbertInTucson

Um, they DO know what causes that pregnancy condition.

Waffle

yes, the doctor says it’s because i have thick brown hair like a young Russell Crowe and look like Jason Giambi….albeit, if he retired and gained a few.

MB30SD

only a few… I swear… like 2 or 3… MAX!!

Waffle

lol, i dusted off the boxing gloves over the last year and i’m officially lusted after again. I have to sleep on the couch sometimes or else i’d wake up to find myself mounted.

MB30SD

you were a sexy beast last time I saw you. I almost mounted you.

And, yeah, sleep on the couch more… or see Bruno Mars first.

Waffle

noted

AlbertInTucson

Ah, yes. Hair. I remember hair.

Irish Sweetness

There he is. I thought Cutty had crashed his Maybach with all the new comments.

There’s tits on this page somewhere, hold on …

BearDown100393

I don’t want it to be true. I won’t be shocked if it is true. And I hate this admission.

Waffle

had 2.50 left over in my bovada account from March Madness. I just bet the whole shebangabang on the Bears vs Cincy. Our 2nd, 3rd and 4th stringers cannot be stopped.

RenoBear

So I open up da blog and see over 360 comments, I think WTF? Yeah we’ve lost some receivers, but NOW what happened? I scroll down and see… MB is back. It’ll be nice to add a little levity back to da blog. Good to have you back, maing.